Conceptualising Gender and Pain in Modern History.

This introduction to the forum on ‘Gender and Pain in Modern History’ offers an overview of current medical and scientific explorations of gendered pain experiences, demonstrating that the themes these studies engage with are historically rooted. In introducing the reader to key debates and trends i...

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Published in:Gender & History Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 8 - 13
Main Authors: Wood, Whitney, Bourke, Joanna
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Mar2020
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Summary:This introduction to the forum on ‘Gender and Pain in Modern History’ offers an overview of current medical and scientific explorations of gendered pain experiences, demonstrating that the themes these studies engage with are historically rooted. In introducing the reader to key debates and trends in pain research and touching on how the authors who contribute to the forum engage with these subjects, the introduction sets the stage for the historical examinations of the multifaceted relationships between gender and pain in the papers that follow.